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| Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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| Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
| Date | 1899 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
| Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
| Title | Page 167 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_173.jpg |
| Transcript | Tb< Council and 'ouncil House Rathaus < Barfusserbruckc to the Frauenthor, where the gallows stood. On the way priests confessed him ; pious people prayed for him and supported him with draughts of wine. It is satisfactory to learn that the feeling of the people was usually in favour of "poor" thing. Fellow-feeling made them wond kind, so that if the hangman bungled his business and failed to kill his subject outright the mob might \ dangerous. But the executioners, who lived in the picturesque Henkersteg, were usually masters of their art. They tell us of ooe great artist who in i 501 killed two robbers almost at a blow. He placed them back to back, two or three yards apart, and took his stand between them. He beheaded the first one, who was kneeling, then with the same sweep, swinging round in a circle, he whipped off the other's head. Clearly he was not devoid of professional pride, and wo was he to be compared with the executioner in Am Geierstein who boasted that 1 and his famous assistants Andre and 1 lies an- novices compared with me in the use of tlu A who claimed »• if one of my J m office on nine men of noble birth with the same weapon and with a single blow to each patient, hath he not a rijfht to his freedom from taxes and his nobility by paSSf The day-book of the Nuremberg executior 1617, no less tha: I re executed, and 345 were beaten with rods and fa ears and fingers cut off in that period. Besides these there were doubtless 1 and much cellar n well. There were also victims oi lbunal, the Yehmc-^ the torture-chamber we pass the entrance to I passage, inaccessible I eason of the masses of fallen stone, which leads beyond the town to a distance of nearly two miles, and emerges 167 |